The Metropolitan Corporate Academy is actually a public high school (H.S. 530). In the early nineties, Goldman Sachs and the City founded the school and Goldman Sachs provided a mentoring/internship program.

Working papers are still required, as far as I know. And I can tell you that when I went to work for an advertising agency in 1984, they definitely checked my papers. I’d say, even to this day, it really depends on the employer – some are a bit more slipshod with the way they handle that stuff.